There's one aspect of this chapter that no-one's picked up on yet, maybe
not even the author.

Choice.

You see, Ranma is now surrounded by people who can, to his way of
thinking, control him completely. Make him *want* to become a vampire.

His only choice now is to run away, because it's the only one, the only
way, he can be sure won't be influenced. Why? Because he knows that they
can control him. Giving in to them or deciding on his own to join them
are now the same thing because he will think (somewhere in the back of
his mind) that they may be controlling him even if they aren't.

If he decides to join them, he could end up crushing his *own* spirit.

Scary, isn't it? Keep up the good work, keep the work flowing, and I'll
continue to read.

Chad Walker, cswvna@hotmail.com (main)
cswvna@mail.austasia.net (FFML / alternate)